Yes standby you sky sport subscribers for a bumper increase Soon .
Watching your hometown club will soon only be available to the well heeled.
Presumably it won’t cost anymore than ifollow (for those that pay rather than watch it on IPTV).
We were allocated five Tuesday games at the start of the season, had five more due to postponements.
So that’s 60 of the 248 games just on midweek games (without taking postponements into consideration)
Doubt all 12 games on each of those five Tuesdays will be moved around, they’ll just be put on the red button so people can choose, if they do they may split them between a Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:45.
So if at home, no real change for a season ticket holder for example, away matches unless really close in terms of travel like Vale, we only take 200 odd to places like Crawley anyway for example, those 200 will still be going to these games regardless.
First and last games of the season are another 24 games.
Four international slots take up another 48 games.
So there’s 132 of the 248 already done, probably 162 if they do count postponements into it over the whole season.
Most watch them on dodgy sticks these days aswell and that hasn’t really affected ground numbers, i guess we’ll just see when the fixtures are announced in June for what they’ll do.
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A Sky Sports Day Pass costs £11.99 via Now TV.
However i’m always getting offers for 4/5/6 months at £19.99 per month for Sky Sports via Now (I already have the cinema membership) which would be much better with more EFL games.
Tuesday night games are legitimately live now if you stump up a tenner.
I know, I’ve done it a couple of times this season.
No doubt it has an impact on Tuesday night attendances, particularly in winter, for both home and away fans, whether ifollow or dodgy box
£26 pound a month offer at moment I did £25 month 6 months back for 12 months split with son-in law £150 year £3 a week no brainer watch loads of different sport only problem one sport i get bored watching on tv is football .
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I’ve just taken a £19.99 p/m for 6 months offer, buggers wouldn’t leave me alone 
Takes me up to mid-October, enough to watch our ascent to the top of the table and DJT getting his 10 goals before Christmas to celebrate his new long term contract 
Yep this £34.99 a month a joke never paid anything like that tell a lie done it once when a 10 month deal ran out as they played hard ball so we jacked it for. 2 months and the offers came thick and fast for 3 weeks each time a better one .just took the month to watch Ryder cup .
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I don’t know. But definitely alot more than 2
If loads of games are moved I will re consider getting a season ticket for 25/26
Routine is important for me especially Friday on the lash.
Saturday 3 pm Tuesday 7.45 is the way it should be.Have the clubs even considered supporter’s.No.
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Dodgy stick users need not worry they will still get Ifollow every week its been on them for years.
Not great for our youngest saddler fans if games are moved to Friday evenings or 6pm on a Saturday…
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I will have to reconsider as well. I buy an ST knowing I cant get to many if any night games, if more are rearranged to accommodate this, it just wont stack up financially simple as.
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If this is going to disrupt games for fans, what sort of payment/compensation will lower league clubs be getting?
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Spoke to Ben about this brief Sat and said it helps but it is not a game changer regarding income.
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Well there’s a pot of £895 million for the televised games. I’m pretty sure TV money has to be split evenly in this country within a league, per appearance (could be wrong, but I know this is why La Liga is controversial as TV money is split among the bigger clubs first).
Say you assume Championship matches are commanding a bigger fee, and League One. For ease, lets say 3 times as much for Champ, 2 for League One.
There’s 1059 Televised of which (Carabao split between each league, EFL Trophy split between league one and two, play offs included in each league), 364 “Championship”, 348 “League One” and 347 “League Two”.
On the assumption that Championship games get most of the pot (I’m using generous figures here, to present a “worst case scenario” of what we might be getting to not be accused of bias) that would mean games featuring Championship teams, based on the above, would be worth around 1.2 Mil per game, League One 857K a game, League Two 429K a game.
That’s 214.5K a game per team in our division/cup games.
That’s a very moderate estimate. Of course that depends on the money actually being split on that basis (and therefore tried to be generous) but in other words, it should more than cover any fans who don’t fancy Friday nights.
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Have you calculated that figure over the contract period EN? The 895 mill is over 5 years isn’t it?
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To be fair, even if it is a 5th of that figure, it’s still not bad, especially if we are expecting to be on 10 times a season. More than cover any fans that can’t/won’t go. Not everything should be about money but unfortunately, it is. I don’t like it but like anything in life you have to adapt I guess.
Problem is the extra money will no doubt just push player wages higher over time.
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